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Post by mrsinghIndia on Sept 13, 2012 7:58:14 GMT
This is actually a question raised by Wisden17 in another forum which, I feel did not get due attention. There are issues here discussing which could be of help to umpires.
Could you consider a batsman not wishing to come out and bat a refusal to play, under Law 21?
What procedure would other umpires follow?
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Post by gooders on Sept 14, 2012 9:11:44 GMT
Please accept my apologies MrsinghofIndia, I didn't mean to sound rude and I must have misread your intention. I must admit that I may have phrased it slightly differently, but I now realise you obviously have your own answer, but were looking to see how others would handle the situation.
I was speaking with a colleague recently, who told me that he actually timed out the two opening batsmen (on appeal of course) because they were late in taking the field. My point to him that he could not time out a batsman before the call of play was dismissed by him saying that he decided to call play before they were there.
I was also less than happy when he called No Ball for a slow bowler delivering a full pitched delivery above waist height. When I questioned him about that, he informed me that ECB had sent out a letter stating that any delivery above waist height was to be so called, though I could find nothing in the website to substantiate this, and despite the fact that I too am a member of ECBACO, I never seem to have received this communication.
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Post by mrsinghIndia on Sept 15, 2012 7:11:45 GMT
No offence taken, mate. Please forget about it.
We are all here to learn and to promote learning. I have always found something in the way a newbie might look at things. He, sometimes, brings a fresh outlook. Hence, the desire to get some responses when I saw none came.
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Post by jaybee on Sept 15, 2012 16:09:37 GMT
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